the end was just the beginning
I've been stickybeaking at celebrity living rooms and their Christmas trees on Instagram, so I thought I'd share the joy. It also gives you a break from my daily waffling. Though you're probably wondering how the eldest's airport pick-up went ... I didn't cry ... she was slightly giddy with exhaustion and her haul of... Continue Reading →
My eldest daughter arrives home from her school band tour of California this morning. My ex and I are heading to the airport to collect her soon. I'm presuming the trip went well, going by the photographs I saw on the P&C's Facebook page. I received two brief text messages from her while she was... Continue Reading →
Have you seen Madonna's Woman of the Year award speech from the 2016 Billboard Women in Music event? My Facebook feed was filled with raves all weekend. I can't get it out of my mind - it brought tears to my eyes watching it again this morning. Madonna totally let loose on the sexism -... Continue Reading →
I spat the dummy around lunchtime yesterday. I was SOOOOOOOOO freaking over painting my freaking house. And the ceiling STILL looks like absolute shite. I suspect it looks like absolute shite because I didn't put the lid back on the paint can properly, so the paint has gone a weird consistency from the air getting... Continue Reading →
My boss asked me recently if I missed editing magazines. Yesssssss. Of course. Very much. And no. I survived some pretty miserable years in that world. Happily, that's all ancient history ... but it doesn't stop me thinking about what I'd do with a weekly magazine if I got my hands on it. Not that anyone... Continue Reading →
Sometimes its the little things in life that can be the most lovely. I needed a surf fix earlier this week, so I arranged to meet DD at the beach after work. I got there early and settled onto the sand to watch the waves while I waited for him. When he arrived, he was... Continue Reading →
I had my office Christmas party yesterday. It was bulk fun. The drinks association team headed off on a catamaran, cruising Sydney Harbour for four hours. We dropped anchor at the Clifton Gardens beach for a swim, had a barbecue on the boat, cruised a bit more, then the boat made its to Walsh Bay... Continue Reading →
I had dinner with a few of my old magazine mates earlier this week. We had such a good natter about friends and foes in the industry and what they were up to these days. We also gave each other the abbreviated rundown on our personal lives - 2016 has been quite the year for... Continue Reading →
Remember me asking my daughter to send a text every few days letting me know she was OK on her school band trip to America … and her looking at me like I’d asked her to scrub the toilet with her toothbrush? Well, I rang my ex yesterday to moan that despite leaving the country... Continue Reading →
Christmas 2014 heralded "The Desolation of Smiggle" ... Christmas 2016 will go down as "The Skirmish of Supernatural." You might recall the merry hell I went through to get a Smiggle advent calendar for my youngest daughter a few years ago. She wanted one BAD. So I tried our local Smiggle store. Nup, sucked dry.... Continue Reading →
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